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Nahid_Shabestary

Nahid Shabestray Ph.D.

Associate Professor - Physical Chemistry
Department of Chemistry

College of Arts and Sciences,
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
SL 2307 (Office)
Edwardsville, Illinois 62026-1652.
Tel: 618-650-2363 (Office), 618-288-0170 (Home)
Fax:618-650-3556
E-mail: nshabes@siue.edu


  • Education

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  • Research Interest

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  • Professional Memberships

  • Publications

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  • External Funding

  • Courses Taught

  • Teaching Related Achievements

  • Thesis / Research Advisor 

  • Service on MS Committees

  • Service and Academic Activities

  • Professional Development and Workshops

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Selected Publication:

  • “Clay-Supported Quaternary Ammonium and Phosphonium Cations in Triphase Catalysis and The effect of Cosolvent in Catalytic Activity,” Shabestary N.; Khazaeli S.; Dutko D. and B.L.Cutts    International Journal of Science & Technology (Scientia Iranica), 2007, 14(4), 297-302. (PDF)
  • “Effect of cosolvent on nucleophilic substitution reactions using an organoclay in a triphase catalytic system,” Nahid Shabestary, Sadegh Khazaeli, Erica L. Beverlin, Danielle N. Reed, and Bonita L. Cutts.  Submitted to Tetrahedron Letters in summer 2007.
  • “Application of design of experiment (DOE) to predict student performance in physical chemistry,” Nahid Shabestary and Maria A. Cooper.  Submitted to the Australian Journal of Education in Chemistry in summer 2007.
  • “Triphase Catalytic Reactions Using Clay Intercalates,”Shabestary N.; Khazaeli S.; and Long N. International Journal of Science & Technology (Scientia Iranica), 2005, 12(3), 290-294. (PDF)
  • “Phase Transfer Catalytic Reactions,” Shabestary, N.; Khazaeli, S.; and Hickman, R., J. Chem. Ed, 1998, 75(11), 1470-1472.
  • “Senior Assignment Program for the Department of Chemistry, SIUE,” Shabestary, N. Assessment In Practice: Putting Principles to Work on College Campuses; Banta, T. W.; Lund, J. P.; Black, K. E.; Oblander, F. W., editors. Jossey-Bass (Higher and Adult Education Series), San Francisco, 1996; p 20.
  • “Complexation of Cesium and Rubidium Cations with Crown Ethers in N,N-dimethylformamide,” Goff, C.M.;  Matchette, M.A.; Shabestary, N.; and Khazaeli, S., Polyhedron, 1996, 15(21), 3897-3903.
  • “The Lineshapes of Infrared-microwave Two-photon Transition in the v2 Band of 15NH3,” Shabestary, N.; Sandholm, S.T.; and Schwendeman, R.H., J. Mol. Spectrosc., 1985, 113, 315-330.
  • “A Unique Excitation Wavelength Dependence of Excited- State Proton Transfer in Para-N,N-Dimethylaminosalicylic Acid,”Shabestary, N. and El-Bayoumi, M.A., Chem. Phys. Lett., 1984, 106, 107.
  • “Excited State Double Proton Transfer in 1-Azacarbazole Hydrogen-Bonded Dimers,” Chang, C.; Shabestary, N.; and El-Bayoumi, M.A.,  Chem. Phys. Lett., 1980, 75, 107.

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